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Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller)
Johannes Willms
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Description for Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller)
Hardcover. Napoleonic historian Johannes Willms visits this strange colonial survivor and unearths both a past and present that disturbs and delights with observations far beyond the ghost of Bonaparte. Translator(s): Brownjohn, John. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTASH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 125 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Helena was important for centuries only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India Company, on their long voyages to and from India via the Cape of Good Hope. It was on one of these journeys that Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, took note of the island's remote impregnability. It was Wellington who suggested St Helena as Napoleon Bonaparte's place of imprisonment and exile after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Until his death in 1821, the former Emperor ... Read more
Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Helena was important for centuries only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India Company, on their long voyages to and from India via the Cape of Good Hope. It was on one of these journeys that Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, took note of the island's remote impregnability. It was Wellington who suggested St Helena as Napoleon Bonaparte's place of imprisonment and exile after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Until his death in 1821, the former Emperor ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905791545
SKU
V9781905791545
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Ref
99-50
About Johannes Willms
Johannes Willms, born 1948, is a historian and journalist. He was in charge of the editorial office at ZDF (German TV Channel) and later the feature section at the Suddeutsche Zeitung. He now works for the Suddeutsche Zeitung as the culture correspondent in Paris. His previous works includes book on German and French history. His latest book is Napoleon. A ... Read more
Reviews for Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller)
'Willms is a wry, entertaining commentator, properly suspicious of hagiography'
Sara Wheeler The Guardian 20080816
Sara Wheeler The Guardian 20080816